SEO landing page vs. Home Page, what is the difference?

Question: What’s the difference between a home page and a landing page?

Answer: This is a It’s confusing, as there are TWO different meanings for the term ‘landing page.’ First, Google defines a ‘landing page’ as the FIRST page that you land on FROM a Google search TO your website. So if you do a Google search for ‘Best SEO Class’ and you land on our home page (http://www.jm-seo.net/), to Google that counts as a landing page. But what if we DEFINE that target keyword search – ‘Best SEO class’ – and then create a subpage, that is laser focused on that term? That is what I consider a true landing page.

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Jason McDonald, Ph.D

Got a question? Click this link to email Jason or call 888-993-1122. Dr. Jason McDonald is founder and Senior SEO / Social Media Director of the JM Internet Group. He teaches the SEO training classes for the group, and therefore provides most of the SEO tips for this blog. His goal with this blog is to provide an easy 'one-stop shop' for the busy marketer looking for tips, tricks, and secrets on how to get to the top of Google and Bing for free using proven SEO tactics. When not dreaming up SEO tips, Dr. McDonald lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife, two dogs, a cat, four iguanas and twelve children (just kidding). Really you read down to the bio on this guy? Enjoy the blog.